Study on individual automatic pattern generation system

Abstract

Based on extracting the basic sizes of human body automatically, this study develops 2D non-contact anthropometric and automatic pattern generation system of men's shirts and pants. The system needs the users to provide front and side photos of the consumers and carry interaction design of shirts or pants' styles. Then the patterns can be automatically generated based on the consumers' photos and the style design. Based on hybrid programming of VB.NET and MATLAB software, the two-dimensional anthropometric system is integrated with automatic pattern generation system. In this study, the students of Soochow University are chosen as subjects to do human body measurement. First, the front, side and back photos of human body are shot by digital camera. Then the point-cloud data are got by 3D body scanning and are measured by using Imageware software to get the rules of pattern generation. According to human silhouettes extracted by MATLAB and the rules of garment patterns, human sizes of main groups are automatically extracted and style design can be done with the silhouettes to generate patterns. This study can meet the individual demand of consumers and provides practical guidance to the application of 2D non-contact anthropometric system and the development of e-commerce in garment industry. © 2013 Asian Network for Scientific Information.